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Jerome Rothenberg - Comments & Themes

Comments & Themes


Topics for research and critical analysis:

    • Analyze Jerome Rothenberg's poetic craft to vocabulary, structure, especially attending to variations, numerology, collaging of words, gematria...

 

    • Consider Rothenberg's Jewishness as related to his memories, histories, and family.

 

    • Indicate Rothenberg's use of formal devices that make the poem surreal.

 

    • Investigate the concept of "total translation" in Rothenberg's poetry and how he appropriates sources and othering.

 

    • Explain Rothenberg's involvement with the other life around him.

 

    • Please, attend and decipher Rothenberg's "reading" as "happening."

 

  • Develop Rothenberg's own view on himself as both oral and postmodernist poet.